[bksvol-discuss] Re: Boy Scout meritbadge booklets are coming

  • From: "Noel Romey" <nromey@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 11:54:12 -0500

Hey Dan,

I haven't done my Work and the Glory books either, I have to actually get
them / borrow them from someone, so it's taking a while.

Very neat project.  I'm wondering, aren't the merit badge booklets online in
pdf format?  If so, I wonder if we could crosscheck the pdf file with the
file that needs to be validated.  Reason why I ask is because I've helped
with the teaching of the chemistry merit badge, and I seem to remember
having some form of electronic copy.  Perhaps I scanned the thing, I have no
idea :).

All the best, and I'd be happy to help with this.

Ner


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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Boy Scout meritbadge booklets are coming

Hi all,

First I want to apologize for not getting the next "The Work and the Glory" 
book done.  I also want to apologize for not getting the Financial Peace 
Revisited by Dave Ramsey completed.  I have had major time shortages due to 
work and family.

Now, I had talked some time ago about doing the meritbadge booklets.  One of

the scouts in the troop I work with has decided to get them ready for 
submition to Bookshare as his Eagle project.  We have now started and I am 
having to teach a dozen or more folks how to do the clean up and preparation

of the files.

I will start submitting the files to Bookshare over the next week or 2.  I 
would appreciate any effort the community could spend on these. I'd like to 
be able to report to the scout on the progress of the submitions.

Each of these files will be easy validations of 50 to 150 pages.  The 
booklets are smaller page sizes than most regular books so there is less 
text involved.  I will be doing my own validation before submitting them so 
they will be very clean.

We are all rather excited about this young man's project.  It will have far 
greater impact than most Eagle projects.

I understand that another scout has done his Eagle project by submitting 
books to Bookshare.  However, this is the first time the meritbadge booklets

have been submitted to Bookshare other than the one I submitted myself a few

months ago.

To tell the truth, I had to go through a good deal of effort to get this 
approved by the Boy Scout national office.  I was rather surprised at the 
resistance I found.  However, once we got past the front line of the office 
we have found that the rest of the staff there are bending over backwards to

see that we have all the materials we need.

Thanks for any effort you can spend on this. 

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